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Self-Agency and Self-Ownership in Cognitive Mapping.

Shahar Arzy, Daniel L Schacter

Trends in Cognitive Sciences May 4, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.04.003 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed
Keywords Humans Alzheimer disease Ego Self concept Cognition Models, psychological Ownership Simulation Memory Modeling Alzheimer’s disease Agency
Key points Proposes that the concepts of agency and ownership, defined as the senses of generating and undergoing an experience represented on a cognitive map, can be applied to cognitive maps and examined in relation to egocentric-allocentric transformation and its neurocognitive and computational mechanisms. Argues that these senses may be disrupted in Alzheimer's disease and other memory-related disorders.

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The concepts of agency of one's actions and ownership of one's experience have proved useful in relating body representations to bodily consciousness. Here we apply these concepts to cognitive maps. Agency is defined as 'the sense that I am the one who is generating the experience represented on a cognitive map', while ownership is defined as 'the sense that I am the one who is undergoing an experience, represented on a cognitive map'. The roles of agency and ownership are examined with respect to the transformation between egocentric and allocentric representations and the underlying neurocognitive and computational mechanisms; and within the neuropsychiatric domain, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other memory-related disorders, in which the senses of agency and ownership may be disrupted.

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